Against anti-Semitism : an anthology of twentieth-century Polish writings / edited by Adam Michnik and Agnieszka Marczyk.

• A note on the translation. Introduction: Poland and Anti-Semitism / Adam Michnik and Agnieszka Marczyk -- Part I. Prologue -- Jews - the 1920s / Czeslaw Milosz -- Part II. 1936-1939: The Mustard Gas of Racism -- The Przytyk Market Stands / Ksawery Pruszynski -- Annual Shame / Maria Dabrowska -- Part III. 1939-1945: On Both Sides of The Wall -- Jews and Polish Commerce / Kazimierz Wyka We, Polish Jews / Julian Tuwim The Orchestration of Rage / Michal Borwicz -- Part IV. 1945-1947: The Power of Ignorance -- The Power of Ignorance / Mieczyslaw Jastrun -- The Problem of Polish Anti-Semitism / Jerzy Andrzejewski -- With Kielce in the Background / Stanislaw Ossowski -- Our Part (A Pessimist's Voice) / Witold Kula -- Part V. 1956-1957: The Anti-Semitism of Kind and Gentle People -- Anti-Semites: Five Familiar Theses and a Warning / From National Democrats to Stalinists / Konstanty A. Jelenski -- Anti-Semitism / Jerzy Turowicz -- The Anti-Semitism of Kind and Gentle People / Tadeusz Mazowiecki -- Part VI. 1967-1969: Expulsion from Poland -- March 1968 and the So-Called Jewish Question in Poland after World War II / Krystyna Kersten -- Part VII. 1970-1989: The Poor Poles Look At The Ghetto -- Jews as a Polish Problem / Aleksander Smolar -- The Poor Poles Look at the Ghetto / Jan Bloński -- Part VIII. 1989-2000: Toward Description and Diagnosis -- Polish-Jewish Relations Thirty Years after the Publication of the "Nostra Aetate" Conciliar Declaration / Archbishop Henryk Muszyński -- The Disgrace of Indifference / Hanna Świda-Ziemba -- The Holocaust / Maria Janion -- Part IX. After 2000: Against the Conformity of Silence -- The Burning Barn and I / Waldemar Kuczyński -- Helplessness / Jerzy Jedlicki.

• Anti-Semitism in Poland has always been a deeply problematic subject. In the years since the Holocaust, much has been written about the willingness of Poles to collaborate with the Nazis, willingly handing over Polish Jews and often profiting from it in the process. Such assertions have led to a widespread and ongoing stereotype that Poles are a deeply, inherently anti-Semitic people. In fact, Adam Michnik argues, while there are certainly anti-Semites among Poles, resistance to anti-Semitism is deeply rooted in the culture. The essays he has gathered in this unique and important anthology-with contributions by a who's who of Polish writers and intellectuals across the decades-both testify to and elaborate on that premise. Michnik offers an overview of the subject, in which lays out the four myths he argues continue to circulate in Polish thought: that in the eastern territories occupied by the USSR between 1939 and 1941, many Jews collaborated with the occupying authorities; that Jews were only delivered into German hands by Polish criminals; that after 1945 Jews formed the core of the Department of Security and therefore bear the blame for the suffering of the Home Army soldiers in communist Poland; and fourth, that anti-Semitism in Poland today is so marginal as to be almost exotic. A prologue by poet Czes?aw Mi?osz, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, focuses on the first third of the 20th century, the period of crisis before the outbreak of World War II. The essays that follow, including works by, among other leading figures, Maria D?browska, Leszek Ko?akowski, and Jan B?o?ski, include writings from the years leading up to World War II, and draw from periodical and newspaper articles in addition to scholarly essays across the twentieth century. Collectively, the works by these writers put Polish anti-Semitism in context and in the process reflect upon the full story of Polish history in the 20th century.-- 

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Jews  -- Poland -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

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